At the December meeting of Nativity's pastoral council, we mostly discussed practical matters about the buildings and grounds. In the course of 2013, we must make repairs to an outside wall and to the parish hall, as well as improve our pest control regiment. We began making project plans, and will work on the budget aspect in January.

We also discussed the problem of cigarette butts being thrown on the ground by the church. This is unacceptable.

We have two priorities for the turning of the year:recruiting new altar servers andrecruiting more people to help with the cleaning. "Jesus' Housekeepers" are doing a great job but just a handful of people are doing all the work. Our hope is to have 8 teams of people, so each team only has to be on deck about 6 times a year. We will then ask each team to clean both the church and the parish hall.

If you would like to be part of "Jesus' Housekeepers"and keep our church clean, please call the parish office at (912) 437-4750, talk with Meg Ponce, or click here to send an e-mail.